UFC Fight Round Indicator UI Design

UFC upgraded it’s round Indicator from a simple “round #” to an icon that has 5 gray lines that change color below the time indicator.

I can’t tell for certain if this is round two or three because I don’t know if lines change color before or after the rounds. Worst, if all 5 lines are white and you just started watching you wouldn’t be able to tell if it’s the first or last round. Well, unless you looked at all the blood…

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Possible solution would be to partially fill up lines as time expires, or better just go back to numbers.

iPhone Nap Alarms Mess

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When you use Siri to set nap alarms (e.g “Wake me up in 20 min”) you end up with a new alarm for each nap. But when are you going to need an alarm for 9:01PM again? Also, you can only delete alarms one at a time. No thanks.

Apple Music iTunes Design Issue

Please iTunes play the next song on the list thank you.

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Apple music borrows a whole lot from spotify which isn’t really bad since Spotify has been around for a while and works well. But if you’re gonna steal then also steal the good parts. Here apple shows us an artist page which has a black background which I can only assume they auto detected from the artist photo.

This is kind of a nice feature, but when you click on the album you get a blinding white page (if you are using the app at night, which I am doing right now).

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Clicking on any of the “top songs” from the main artist page only plays that one song and does not continue down the list which doesn’t make any sense. There is no option to auto continue. It’s like turning the record over after every song, which is what people do I guess with those 7″ vinyls. Also, you can’t click on the entire row but have to click on the little play icon. Awesome. thanks.